Learning & Leading With Habits of Mind

students to make meaning out of a Habit of Mind, or intelligent behav- ior. The process begins with one intelligent behavior (fo ...

magic words and the tool kit. Students talk when they are passed a “talk- ing stick” or a “community ball.” Nearly all classroom ...

language empowers children to make meaning out of a problem and take action toward solving it. Mindful Assemblies and Open House ...

What Are the Benefits? Mindfulness provides the school culture with a unique kind of safety. A consistent ideology and framework ...

experience a lot of joy in the education process. The award-winning cafe- teria provides wonderful lunches daily. Laughter rolls ...

Waikiki has created an engaging schoolwide curriculum that sparks an authentic interest in academics among all students—includin ...

to become an ever more effective “mindful” learning community where compassion, competence, and harmony of the heart and mind ar ...

362 Integrating the Habits of Mind: ADistrict Perspective Nancy Skerritt, Emilie Hard, and Kristin Edlund 22 When you start on y ...

behaviors.” During the 2006 school year, we convened a committee of parents and district educators to review our district’s stud ...

Like all districts, we are responsible for our students achieving state standards, and we have integrated these standards with o ...

Integrating the Habits of Mind: A District Perspective 365 FIGURE 22.2 Overview of a Curriculum Unit Source: Tahoma School Distr ...

366 Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind FIGURE 22.3 Letter to Parents Source: Tahoma School District No. 409. Copyright © 1 ...

Mind while achieving the content goals important in each curricular area (see Figure 22.4). We a r e f o r t u n a t e i n Wa s ...

368 Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind FIGURE 22.4 Nested Objectives for Unit on Puget Sound Communities Source: Tahoma Sc ...

Integrating the Habits of Mind: A District Perspective 369 FIGURE 22.5 Two-Year Curriculum for Teaching the Habits of Mind Tahom ...

week, the students engage in a fast-paced paraphrasing activity called Relay Raps to practice the skills of active listeners. Th ...

these foundational behaviors. Our students could not achieve the district outcomes without learning the Habits of Mind. Our goal ...

372 Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind FIGURE 22.6 Tahoma School District Standards for Quality Teaching and Learning MEET ...

who wish to visit a school where the Habits of Mind truly help to define the school’s culture. She has learned that when the who ...

to one-word descriptions. The habits are publicized in the school newslet- ter and teachers’ communications with parents, featur ...